Day: January 17, 2009

The changing face of Africa

A professor and several students at Brown University have created an animated map of Africa from 1879 to 2002 showing armed conflicts, changing rule (colonial,

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The neo-Thoreuvians

It turns out that foresaking material possesions is as likely to turn you into a crank as a saint, writes Michael Agger in a book review for Mother Jones magazine: “I don’t mean to throw cold water on earnest self-improvement. But maybe we should set about such tasks in a way that doesn’t reek of personal branding.”

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“So help me God”

The 35 words of the presidential oath of office are found in the Constitution. And they are the only material in quotes in the Constitution. “So help me God” is not among them.

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Conversations with a theocracy

Bishop John Bryson Chane of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington recently spoke with Sister Maureen Fiedler of Interfaith Voices about his trip to Iran in October and his meeting with the country’s leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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Love Christ alone

Whenever a large crowd such as this came to his cell, Antony was never put out. He listened patiently to all they had to tell him and treated each person gently and with immense courtesy. And they recognized that the Living Word informed all his actions and his every utterance. Among those who came to him were many who had all manner of afflictions both of mind and body; and Our Lord healed them by the hand of this blessed man.

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